Slab (Kenneth Noland, Touch, 1963)

This panel is part of an ongoing series inspired by the colour palettes of 1960s American Colour Field painting. The pigments used were demonstrably employed in that period and manufactured in Germany by I.G. Farben, a company closely associated with National Socialism. In these works, pigments appear as condensed carriers of material histories, ideological narratives and contradictions, presented as irregular “slabs” resembling fragments broken from larger surfaces.